LOGISTICS FLOW MANAGEMENT STRATEGY THROUGH THE CREATION OF AN AVIATION TERMINAL-HUB IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the possibility of creating a hub airport or a hub terminal on the territory of Ukraine. It should be noted that the hub airport is an airport that is used by an airline or airline alliance as a point of transfer of passengers and has a high percentage of connecting flights. Often the airline hub is located at its base airport, or at the airport of the same city as the main office. Airlines can use either one or several hub airports. They are used in both passenger and freight traffic. A comparative analysis of the volume of passenger traffic in the world's largest airports, as well as airports in Ukraine, was conducted. It was concluded that the airport in Kyiv Borispol is the most successful and optimal for improving it to the level of the hub airport. As the basic airline, it is most optimal to consider the International Airlines of Ukraine. Since this company has the largest fleet of aircraft, the wide geographical coverage of the flights, its own facilities for carrying out linear and basic maintenance, as well as it is based on the territory of the “Boryspil” airport. It was determined that based on the structure of the expected role of a junction airport, the most optimal is the conversion of terminal D into a terminal hub. It can serve for transfers: from international to international flights, from international to domestic, from domestic to domestic, from domestic to international, as well as to flights to the final points of the route. It should also be noted that the attractiveness of “Boryspil” as a hub can be increased by reducing airport fees, attracting new airline partners by Ukraine International Airlines, and by improving the airport infrastructure. As a result of the article, it was determined that the most effective schemes of passenger traffic for the hub in “Boryspil” could be either the “Hourglass”-model or “Coverage zone”-model.